[jira] [Assigned] (FLINK-3002) Add an EitherType to the Java API

["Vasia Kalavri (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-3002?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Vasia Kalavri reassigned FLINK-3002:
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    Assignee: Vasia Kalavri

> Add an EitherType to the Java API
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>
>                 Key: FLINK-3002
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-3002
>             Project: Flink
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Java API
>    Affects Versions: 0.10
>            Reporter: Stephan Ewen
>            Assignee: Vasia Kalavri
>             Fix For: 1.0
>
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> Either types are recurring patterns and should be serialized efficiently, so it makes sense to add them to the core Java API.
> Since Java does not have such a type as of Java 8, we would need to add our own version.
> The Scala API handles the Scala Either Type already efficiently. I would not use the Scala Either Type in the Java API, since we are trying to get the {{flink-java}} project "Scala free" for people that don't use Scala and o not want to worry about Scala version matches and mismatches.



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